Francis Kamujanduzi Butagira

Francis Kamujanduzi Butagira, 2014

Francis Kamujanduzi Butagira (born November 22, 1942 in Bugamba , Mbarara District ) is a Ugandan judge, politician and diplomat .

Life

He first attended the Ntare School in Mbarara and studied law at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and at the SOAS University of London in the United Kingdom . He later earned a master's degree in law from Harvard .

In 1967 he became a prosecutor in the Ugandan Ministry of Justice. In 1968 he taught law at the Nsamizi Law School and headed the legal department of the Law Development Center in 1969 and 1970. Butagira was Judge at Buganda Road Court in 1973 and Chief Magistrate in Mbarara in 1974. From 1974 to 1979 he worked as a judge at the High Court of Uganda .

From 1979 to 1980 he was a member of the National Consultative Council , the transitional parliament of Uganda, of which he was chairman in 1980. Butagira became a member of the parliament of Uganda for the constituency of Mbarara West in 1980 and was its spokesman until 1985. From 1981 to 1983 he was also President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific States , the ACP Group .

From 1989 to 1996 he moved into parliament again, this time for the constituency of Rwampara , where he held the office of chairman of the Committee on Law and Security. In 1996 and 1997 he worked in Kampala as a lawyer at Kirenga and Butagira Advocates .

From 1998 he represented Uganda as ambassador to Ethiopia and to the Organization for African Unity in Addis Ababa . He later became a representative at the United Nations Environment Program and the United Nations Program for Human Settlements in Nairobi and Ugandan High Commissioner in Kenya . In 1999 he headed the Ugandan delegation in the negotiations for the establishment of the East African Community . In 2000 he acted as mediator of the peace talks for Sudan promoted by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development . From July 2003 he was the permanent representative of Uganda to the United Nations . He was elected to the Vice-Presidency of the General Assembly of the United Nations and has been Chairman of the General Assembly's Committee on Social, Cultural, Humanitarian and Human Rights Affairs since June 13, 2005.

In 2010 he took over the office as ambassador to Germany , Austria and the Holy See .

In October 2015 he became Chairman of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB).

Family and personal

He is married and has seven children.

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personal data
SURNAME	Butagira, Francis Kamujanduzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Butagira, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ugandan judge, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bugamba